The Frederick County School Board has approved the purchase of up to 31.29 acres
adjacent to the Gainesboro Elementary School/Frederick County Middle School campus in
order to enhance safety at the site. The property will be purchased for no more than $325,000
and will enable the school division to construct a road in the future connecting the school
campus directly to Gainesboro Road.

Schools Superintendent David Sovine says, “The school division has been working with
the Virginia Department of Transportation, the Frederick County Board of Supervisors, the
Frederick County Sheriff’s Office and others over the past few years in an attempt to improve
the safety of the current entrance to the Gainesboro Elementary/Frederick County Middle
School campus. By purchasing this piece of property and constructing a road directly
connecting the campus to Gainesboro Road, we will reduce the number of buses that leave the
campus and have to travel north on Route 522. In addition, the new road will provide buses that
have to travel north on Route 522 with the ability to access Route 522 from its intersection with
either Siler Lane or Gainesboro Road. Both of those intersections provide greater visibility than
the current campus entrance on Route 522.”

A timeline for construction of the new road connecting the school campus to Gainesboro
Road has yet to be determined. Once the road opens, it will be used by approximately 70
percent of the buses that serve Gainesboro Elementary School and Frederick County Middle
School. Buses heading south on Hayfield Road or north on Route 522 will exit the campus via
the new road and then use Gainesboro Road to access Hayfield Road or Route 522 north.
Buses leaving the school campus to head south on Route 522 will continue to use the existing
campus entrance.